BOOK DEPOSITORY EVIDENCE
0. BOOK DEPOSITORY EVIDENCE - Story Preface
1. HAPPIER TIMES
2. TO DALLAS
4. THE MOTORCADE
5. THE ASSASSINATION
6. DEATH OF THE PRESIDENT
7. QUESTIONS
8. BOOK DEPOSITORY EVIDENCE
9. FATAL BULLETS
10. MURDER OF OFFICER TIPPIT
11. OSWALD'S ARREST
12. RUBY KILLS OSWALD
13. THE PRESIDENT'S FUNERAL
On the 22nd of November, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald worked as an order-filler at the Texas School Book Depository. This photo—by Andrew J Oldaker—depicts the building located at 411 Elm Street in Dallas, Texas. License: CC BY SA-3.0 Lee Oswald stored his bolt-action rifle inside a green and brown blanket in the garage of Ruth Paine's house in Irving, Texas. Paine, a friend of Oswald's wife, did not know the gun was there. On the morning of the assassination, Lee Oswald rode in to work with Buell W. Frazier. He had unexpectedly visited his family at Ruth Paine's house the night before - a Thursday. (Usually Oswald only visited the family on weekends.) Carrying a paper wrapping with something inside it, Oswald told Frazier (scroll down 50%) the package contained curtain rods which Ruth had given him for his boarding-house room. In fact, Ruth Paine personally turned over both of her curtain rods to the Warren Commission. They were marked as Commission Exhibits 275 and 276. Police who searched the sixth floor of the Depository immediately after Kennedy was shot found paper wrappings, spent cartridges and a high-powered rifle with a misaligned scope. All of that evidence is maintained at the National Archives. Images have been digitized for on-line viewing: Close-up of the scope on the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle
Cartridge taken from the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle
One can compare that cartridge, with its intact bullet, to the "magic bullet" found on the President's stretcher at Parkland Memorial
6.5 mm cartridge case found on the 6th floor of the School Book Depository
View looking into the empty shell
Wrapping paper found on the sixth floor of the SBD after the shooting
The Mannlicher-Carcano rifle was found behind boxes (the link takes you to Box "A") on the Book Depository's sixth floor Box "B"
Box "C"
Box "D"
Did the rifle, bearing serial number C2766, belong to Lee Harvey Oswald? Two famous photographs played a prominent role in answering that question during the official investigations. It was alleged that Marina took pictures of her husband, with the subject rifle, in the backyard of the Oswalds' home at 214 West Neely Street. Some experts claim the pictures were altered. Others believe they are authentic. What did Marina say? She testified that she took her husband's picture, as he posed with his rifle, using the camera he gave to her. It was, she said, the first time she had ever taken a picture.
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JFK Assassination - Texas Book Depository Andrew J Oldaker, photographer. Image online via Wikimedia Commons. License: CC BY SA-3.0 View this asset at: http://www.awesomestories.com/asset/view/JFK-Assassination-Texas-Book-Depository
Evidence Retrieved from Ruth Paine's Garage Quote, Warren Commission Report, Chapter 7, page 421.
Image, U.S. National Archives. View this asset at: http://www.awesomestories.com/asset/view/Evidence-Retrieved-from-Ruth-Paine-s-Garage
Green and Brown Blanket in Ruth Paine's Garage U.S. National Archives. PD View this asset at: http://www.awesomestories.com/asset/view/Green-and-Brown-Blanket-in-Ruth-Paine-s-Garage Inside Mrs. Paine's Garage Mrs. Paine's Garage and the Murder of John F. Kennedy by Thomas Mallon. View this asset at: http://www.awesomestories.com/asset/view/Inside-Mrs.-Paine-s-Garage
Curtain Rods Found at the Paine Home Warren Commission Exhibit 275. U.S. National Archives. PD View this asset at: http://www.awesomestories.com/asset/view/Curtain-Rods-Found-at-the-Paine-Home
Mannlicher-Carcano Rifle Scope Close-up U.S. National Archives PD View this asset at: http://www.awesomestories.com/asset/view/Mannlicher-Carcano-Rifle-Scope-Close-up
Live Round Removed from Oswald's Rifle Warren Commission Exhibit 141. U.S. National Archives. View this asset at: http://www.awesomestories.com/asset/view/Live-Round-Removed-from-Oswald-s-Rifle
"Magic Bullet" Found at Parkland Hospital Warren Commission Exhibit 399. U.S. National Archives. View this asset at: http://www.awesomestories.com/asset/view/-Magic-Bullet-Found-at-Parkland-Hospital 6.5mm Cartridge Case Found at Sniper's Perch Warren Commission Exhibit 543. U.S. National Archives. View this asset at: http://www.awesomestories.com/asset/view/6.5mm-Cartridge-Case-Found-at-Sniper-s-Perch
View into Empty Cartridge Warren Commission Exhibit 543. U.S. National Archives. View this asset at: http://www.awesomestories.com/asset/view/View-into-Empty-Cartridge
Discarded Wrapping Paper Found at Sniper's Perch Warren Exhibit 142. U.S. National Archives. View this asset at: http://www.awesomestories.com/asset/view/Discarded-Wrapping-Paper-Found-at-Sniper-s-Perch
Box "A" Near "Assassination Window" Warren Commission Exhibit 641. U.S. National Archives. View this asset at: http://www.awesomestories.com/asset/view/Box-A-Near-Assassination-Window-
Box "B" and Its Fingerprints Warren Commission Exhibit 653. U.S. National Archives. View this asset at: http://www.awesomestories.com/asset/view/Box-B-and-Its-Fingerprints Box "C" and its Latent Prints U.S. National Archives. View this asset at: http://www.awesomestories.com/asset/view/Box-C-and-its-Latent-Prints
Box "D" and its Latent Palm Print U.S. National Archives. View this asset at: http://www.awesomestories.com/asset/view/Box-D-and-its-Latent-Palm-Print
Close-up of Oswald's Rifle U.S. National Archives. View this asset at: http://www.awesomestories.com/asset/view/Close-up-of-Oswald-s-Rifle
Oswald with Rifle and Revolver U.S. National Archives. PD View this asset at: http://www.awesomestories.com/asset/view/Oswald-with-Rifle-and-Revolver
Oswald's Camera U.S. National Archives. View this asset at: http://www.awesomestories.com/asset/view/Oswald-s-Camera
Oswald's Home on West Neely - Posed with Rifle Photo, U.S. National Archives. Information, Live By the Sword by Gus Russo, page 115. (Online, courtesy Google Books.) View this asset at: http://www.awesomestories.com/asset/view/Oswald-s-Home-on-West-Neely-Posed-with-Rifle Sixth-Floor Diagram U.S. National Archives. View this asset at: http://www.awesomestories.com/asset/view/Sixth-Floor-Diagram
Oswald's Rifle - Ruth Paine Interview Clip from a 40th-anniversary of President Kennedy's assassination by Channel 4. Online, via YouTube. View this asset at: http://www.awesomestories.com/asset/view/Oswald-s-Rifle-Ruth-Paine-Interview